Patient and Public Involvement & Engagement (PPIE) Lead

About the Role

We are seeking a tuberculosis (TB) survivor representative with extensive experience of research engagement and advocacy to lead on Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Activities within the newly established QMUL and Barts TB Centre. The post-holder will work closely with TB Centre Investigators, the TB Centre Research Co-ordinator, and members of the TB Action Group to ensure that TB Centre activities align with TB survivor priorities, and that proposed innovations to TB services at Barts Health NHS Trust are co-designed with meaningful TB survivor input.

About You

You will be a graduate with lived experience of TB, who has also had extensive experience of working with TB researchers, TB clinicians and policy makers to ensure that voices of TB survivors inform their work and plans. You will also have had experience of working with other TB survivors to provide peer support to people as they undergo TB treatment, and to provide feedback to TB researchers on research proposals in development.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

The Blizard Institute was established in 2003 and is one of six Institutes within the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, QMUL. It comprises approximately 360 staff based in four academic Centres and one Public Engagement Centre and supports a combined total of c750 postgraduate research and taught students. The postholder will join the newly-created Queen Mary and Barts Health Tuberculosis Centre, which comprises a large and growing team of tuberculosis researchers (faculty currently comprising four professors, a senior lecturer and a lecturer), supported by a recent £4.6m award from Barts Charity. In collaboration with this highly-motivated team, the post-holder will work to achieve the TB Centre’s Vision, which is to deliver step-changes in scientific understanding, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis infection and disease in East London.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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